Keeping close to the coastline on my journey, I have always been saddened by litter on the beaches. My gesture is to use these materials for my artworks. By looking closer, you can transform something ugly into something beautiful.
Using foraged flotsam from the beach between Ballito and Durban to get the materials. I then transformed them into various forms of sea life. I then installed them in the Ushaka Harbour tank exhibit.
The Ushaka Wreck Aquarium is a superb world-class destination, with over 150 000 school children visiting a year. Ushaka also has a new dolphin show – Shaka’s Tears- created with the assistance of Nick Ellenbogen it delivers an entertaining and profound message about how we need to learn from nature….
For the full story and more pictures please see my personal blog: http://simontothemax.blogspot.com/
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